Trunk



April 17, 1934. L v os u 1,954,913

TRUNK Filed Aug. 15, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet l 17.15 I Egj m m F 'April 17,1934. J. v. BOSQUE TRUNK 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Aug. 15, 1930 PatentedApr. 17, 1934 UNITED STATES Application August 15, 1930, Serial No.475,525 In Cuba August 7, 1930 l-Claim. (01. 190-13) This inventionrelates to improvements in trunks, and particularly to the type known aswardrobe trunks, and has for its main object the provision of animprovement in the construction of trunks, whereby the same is renderedas neat and compact as a regular closet, and thereby facilitating thehandling thereof in small or narrow places, due to the fact that in thistrunk the only front is constituted by a door, behind which there is aset of drawers comprising a hinged body, which, upon moving outwardspermits access to the interior of the trunk.

A further object of the invention is to provide the trunk with anadditional smaller side door, permitting the door and the body ofdrawers behind same, to have suflicient room to rotate outwardly,without wasting useful spaces in the trunk.

Still another object of the invention, although a secondary one, is toprovide a trunk which, although not rotatory, may be placed upon asuitable pedestal or standard, matching the body of the trunk, thusgiving the same the full appearance of a closet.

In the drawings:-

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a trunk constructed in accordance withthe present invention.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of same.

Figure 3 is a front elevation showing the trunk with its door opened andthe top raised.

Figure 4 is an upper plan view showing the trunk in a closed condition,with its top raised.

Figure 5 is an upper plan View of the trunk with its top raised, thedoor opened and the body of drawers thrown outward.

Figure 6 is a vertical longitudinal section view of the trunk.

Figure 7 shows an illustrative position, on a smaller scale, of theinstallation of a trunk in a narrow place, to better appreciate itsadvantages; and

Figure 8 is a perspective View, in detail, of the pedestal or standardserving to support the trunk of this invention.

By 1 is designated the main body of the trunk, which is provided with atop 2, hinged at 3 and having a conventional trunk lock 3'. The front ofthe trunk is constituted by a door 5, which is hinged to the trunk bodyat 6. 4. designates the usual latches to cooperate in fastening the top2 to the trunk body and are arranged on opposite sides of the trunk.Behind the door 5 is located a set of panels 7 for a plurality ofdrawers 8, having their front faces provided with handles 9 facing thefront upon opening of the door 5, these panels being hinged at 10 to theinner edge of the trunk body to which the door is hinged. The top drawerhas a lid or top 11 hinged at 11' to the paneling and the front face ofthe drawer is hinged at 12 to rotate outwardly and adapted to remainhorizontally extended as shown by dotted line on Figure 6, upon openingthe door 5 of the trunk. In raising the top 11 of the upper drawer,there is visible a mirror 13 fastened to the inner face of said top.

The panels are adapted to cooperate, by means of sliding rollers 14,with a false bottom 15, which does not reach the rear wall of the trunk,for the purposes which will be explained further on, the said bottom isprovided with plates 15 to avoid the wear by friction thereof. Thisfalse bottom has a rear wall 16, constructed with a View to constitute apanel within which a large drawer 17 works slidingly, this constructiongreatly strengthening the structure of the trunk. To the lower rearportion of the paneling '7, there is fastened a receptacle shoe-case 18.

The space behind the panels '7 is used for hangers, having for thispurpose the usual supporting bars 19 for the hangers 20, theconstruction of the drawer 1'7 spaced from the rear wall of the trunkpermits the hanging of certain larged sized clothes, such as dress-suitsor overcoats on the hangers. By 21 a tenter-hook is designated, which isfastened to the rear wall of the panels '7, and may be used forsuspending a laundry bag The body of the. trunk has a narrow side door23, hinged at 24, which opens only when the top 2 and main door 5 open,owing to its upper edge being held by the edge of the top 2 and its sideedge by that of door 5 in the closed position of both.

By 25, a standard or pedestal, with corner plates 26, is designated,upon which the trunk is supported, as illustrated in Figure 1, and itshould be noted that'the pedestal affects the same construction andstyle or ornaments as the rest of the trunk body, in order to give samethe full appearance of a closet.

As illustrated in Fig. 7, when the trunk is placed in a narrow spacewhere little room is available for its handling, for example, in a shipstateroom, the lock 3 may be opened, the latches 4 disconnected, and thetop 2 raised, whereupon 105 the door 5 may be opened and the body ofdrawers 8 thrown outwards, whereby the rollers 14 are caused to slide onthe anti-friction plates 15'. Easy access to the rear part of the trunkor space provided for the hangers is thereby afforded and 110 permitsthe withdrawal or placing of clothes on the hangers.

These operations, as seen on Figure 5 are not interfered with by thedrawers, which may be of full width of the inner dimensions of thetrunk, as the panel body 7, due to the arrangement of the small door 23,is pivoted around its hinges 10, without need of reducing the size ofthe drawers to attain these results. This door 23 does not necessarilyhave to be opened in full to fill its object, as this is obtained bypartly opening the same.

On the other hand, as indicated by the dotted line in Figure 6, and asalso appreciated in Figure 3, the front part of the upper drawer 8,hinged at 12, will be made to rotate to a horizontal position, while thehinged top 11 of said drawer will be made to raise showing the mirror 13fastened to its interior face, thus constituting a completedressing-table and its bracket-shelf or front part of the drawer placedin a horizontal position rendering the usefulness of this piece offurniture still more complete.

I claim:

In a wardrobe trunk in combination, a door at the front of the trunk andhinged to one side thereof, a false bottom fixed in said trunk, a drawerpositioned between the bottom of the trunk and the said false bottom, adrawer compartment separately hinged to the: side of the trunk at whichthe door is hinged, a top hingedly connected on said drawer compartment,said drawer compartment mounted to fit snugly between the side walls ofthe trunk, a portion of the side wall of the trunk opposite the sidewall to which the compartment is hinged being movable so that thecompartment may swing from between said side walls, and a top hinged tosaid trunk body, adapted to lock both the door front and said movablewall portion in closed position.

JOSE VIDAL BOSQUE.

